While browsing Firefox extensions the other day, I happened upon the TextMarker extension. WOW, what a great tool for students to use while researching the web. Students can highlight text as they read a web page. Then when they are finished they simply right click over the highlighted text and copy just the parts they have highlighted to their notes. […]
IÂ’ve been rereading George Siemens Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. I think this makes the third time IÂ’ve read it in the past 6 months. I read it because I feel George is on to something here, and as I blog and continue to expand my own learning by “connecting specialized nodes or information sources” together, I […]
Reece Lennon wrote a comment to my posting yesterday on ‘What is the purpose of a school web site?Â’ I thought IÂ’d take this one step further and answer some of ReeceÂ’s questions. Principal As webmaster? Why not? Part of a principalÂ’s job description is “Communicate with parents, community members, and the larger school community effectively.” In the past this […]
This is the topic of a meeting I have today with the other technology teachers in my district. So I thought IÂ’d prepare for the meeting by taking some time and writing my thoughts down. IÂ’m glad we are stopping for a moment to look at what is our objective with a school web site. What is it we are […]
Last night my wife and I sat down to watch some TV. The first time we have done so in weeks. We flipped to a channel that was showing “Medical Investigation”. As I watched the episode where the Medical Investigation team was trying to find out what was causing kids in a small town to get sick, I found myself […]
So I woke up at 4:00 this morning to join the techleaning.com webinar on The Tipping Point in K-12 Education: One-to-One Computing, Electronic Textbooks, and New Tools for Learning. A great presentation on the use of computers in the classroom and the power that one-to-one computing offers to schools. It was the first time I had taken part in a […]
On David WarlickÂ’s blog the past couple of days there has been a great discussion about pre-service teachers and what skills should they be taught before being thrown into the lions den. 🙂 A follow up to DavidÂ’s discussion was also posted on Christopher HarriÂ’s Imfomency blog a great post from someone teaching pre-service teachers. There are a couple points […]
After reading David WarlickÂ’s post: Innovation Learning for a Flat World, I got to thinking about the games that our students play on a daily basis and how right David and Bill MacKenty were about the language that these short-cuts use. So, I went out to the internet and in less than five minutes I found a short-cut to a […]
A great new article out by cnet.com titled Blogging 101-web logs go to school. I was glad to see that the classroom mentioned is using the same student friendly blog program as I am using with my 5th graders. Blogmeister is a great program that allows teacher to control the content that students publish.
Reece Lennon Writes in response to my “The Future of a School” article: Okay, so you gave her a philosophical answer, but what about a practical answer? What should she tell the architects when they are drawing up their plans? Yes, my answer is philosophical, and as far as the architects are concerned they need to know that we envision […]